Monday, 27 February 2017

Did you chew your sweater as a kid?

I would take one side of the collar of a v- neck jumper and put it between my teeth. This was done really quickly.

Once chewing on said sweater I would begin to snort and curse. None of anything I said made sense because I had a mouthful of wool. Rage had made me unintelligible too.

Like a cross between Mutley from the Wacky Races and the Incredible Hulk, I would fume with clenched teeth in this way until I was dentally spent.

As a result of this chewing I would also dribble on my jumper's collar, which created a set of wet teeth marks when I had calmed down and returned to normal sweater wearing. Some collars may have been bitten clean through!

This chomping fury happened both at school and at home as people's ability to wind me up was universal.

Did you chew your jumpers readers? What did you do when you got angry as a kid?